A while ago, Megan Thee Stallion, a black female singer in the United States, and the Korean idol group BTS posted the same photo of each other on their respective social media. Some netizens found that the characters in the BTS group photo were much whiter than the stallions. For this reason, many netizens criticized BTS for discriminating against black people and pretending to be white. Subsequently, Ramsk fans in Europe and the United States began to call for a boycott of BTS. This is a standard "Cancel Culture" behavior. How to define the "cancellation culture" and why this culture appears in Europe and the United States, today we will talk about this topic.
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Before explaining the meaning of "cancellation culture" in detail, I would like to first stretch the front line a little longer and talk about the background of the formation of "cancellation culture" - "**correct".
"**Correct" mostly refers to the self-restraint of individuals in words and behaviors out of concern for the pressure of public opinion, so as to avoid offending certain groups in society. In European and American countries, "**correct" mainly includes various affirmative action and environmental protection movements
In the internet age, what happens if a celebrity violates the "right" in words or actions – that is, does not support (or inadvertently violates) the above movement – what happens? He will be "banished" by the Internet, and netizens will openly boycott his/her work, making it impossible for it to continue to exist, and eventually "canceled" – this is the cancellation culture.
In fact, many celebrities and influencers are worried about the cancellation culture (no one wants to be canceled themselves), and "Mr. Bean" Rowan Atkinson once bluntly said that "the keyboard warriors who pursue the cancellation culture are simply the mob of the Middle Ages". At the beginning of the article, the problem of BTS taking a photo with a stallion sister was only because of a whitening filter that BTS was called a "Z-rite".
The "cancellation culture" in Europe and the United States is going farther and farther, and a person does not know when he will violate the "** correctness" and then face the danger of being canceled. Maybe one day, you may be "canceled" by netizens for uploading photos of the gym on social platforms, because the gym will aggravate the anxiety of people who are not in good shape; posting photos of chess will also face the risk of being canceled, because chess is white and black, and there is a Z-ism tendency.
Social media is so well developed that what everyone sees is usually determined by algorithms. Over time, a simple notion of "you agree with me or you disagree with me" is created. If you oppose me, I will "cancel you." This is the root cause of the emergence of the culture of cancellation, the deformed culture of Europe and America.
Finally, the correct English translation of Keyboard Man is keyboard warrior, not keyboard man, which means "keyboard engineer."